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  • Dolphins: Unexpected treasure hunters

    Mon, May 20, 2013 4:50 PM

    by Marshall Honorof, TechNewsDaily

    The U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program combines technology and biology to train bottlenose dolphins to find sea mines, enemy divers and even artifacts.

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  • Will Anthony Foxx keep the DOT on track?

    Tue, Apr 30, 2013 12:12 PM by Russell McLendon

    The Charlotte mayor's nomination to lead the Department of Transportation hints at a renewed White House focus on boosting public transit and urban walkability.

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  • 'Eyeball Earths': Scientists want to simulate habitable alien planets

    Tue, Apr 30, 2013 11:07 AM by Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com

    The 'eyeball' planet is one that has a permanent day side and a permanent night side due to its orbit around a star.

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  • Democrats: Climate change may force women into prostitution

    Tue, Apr 30, 2013 10:51 AM by Melissa Breyer

    A new resolution focuses on the specific hardships that women will endure in the face of global warming.

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  • Dinosaur ancestors boomed after extinction event

    Tue, Apr 30, 2013 9:55 AM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience

    The creatures that predate dinosaurs likely inhabited what is now Africa and Antarctica.

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  • NASA photographs monster hurricane on Saturn

    Tue, Apr 30, 2013 9:37 AM by Mike Wall, SPACE.com

    Scientists plan to study how the Saturn storm works in the hopes of gaining insight into hurricanes here on Earth.

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  • Best medicine for bees? Their own honey

    Mon, Apr 29, 2013 5:50 PM by Tia Ghose, LiveScience

    Bees that ate the immune-boosting chemicals found in honey showed activation in genes known to help them fight parasites and break down pesticides, a study finds.

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  • The saddest little video of smokestacks collapsing that you'll ever see

    Mon, Apr 29, 2013 4:38 PM by Shea Gunther

    Your heart may break as you watch anthropomorphic cooling towers and smokestacks tumble to the ground.

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  • Early Earth smelled like rotten eggs

    Mon, Apr 29, 2013 4:07 PM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience

    Microbes munching on other microbes would have been responsible for the stench.

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  • 9 ingenious wind turbine designs

    9 ingenious wind turbine designs

    Mon, Apr 29, 2013 3:29 PM by Bryan Nelson

    To harness the power of the wind, some creative minds have proven that the sky is the limit.

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  • Virgin Galactic one step closer to space tourism

    Mon, Apr 29, 2013 1:50 PM by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com

    If test flights continue to go well, SpaceShipTwo may carry passengers as soon as this year or 2014.

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  • Why guppies fling themselves out of the water

    Mon, Apr 29, 2013 12:32 PM by Denise Chow, LiveScience

    Jumping likely serves a crucial evolutionary function for guppies.

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  • Raptors vs. landfills: Methane burners kill many birds of prey

    Mon, Apr 29, 2013 12:17 PM by John Platt

    The birds often perch on top of large smokestacks where fatal burns are more likely.

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  • What better way to see the 'comet of the century' than hot air balloon?

    Mon, Apr 29, 2013 12:08 PM by Leonard David, SPACE.com

    The super pressure balloon design is being eyed for long-duration sojourns above the Earth's atmosphere for up to 100 days.

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  • Fish use 'sign language' to help hunting buddies

    Mon, Apr 29, 2013 11:50 AM by Douglas Main, LiveScience

    A study published found that the fish are able to 'point' their heads toward prey, to help out their hunting buddies.

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  • What is an ice 'brinicle' and how does it form?

    Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:40 AM by Douglas Main, LiveScience's OurAmazingPlanet

    Salt-heavy brine escapes when the sea ice cracks and the brine itself is colder than the freezing point of seawater.

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